Dewey Crumpler: Sonic Lineages

Shipping containers, hooded figures, voids and metallic surfaces keep coming back in Dewey Crumpler's paintings, and here canvases made decades apart hang in the same galleries and answer each other. Some of the works took years, even decades, to finish, because he holds that a painting should enter the world only once it has realized its full possibilities.

The show runs across all three floors and pairs paintings from five decades with newly commissioned kinetic works. The museum says it shifts as you move through it: reflections change, the kinetic pieces activate and connections between paintings surface slowly. You've watched the Oakland container cranes from the Bay Bridge on a hundred commutes. Crumpler kept looking.

No reviews of the show are published yet, so this is the museum's own account of it. Admission is $15, or $7 for seniors, students and educators, and it covers all three floors. Tickets are booked at moadsf.org/tickets.